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Compensation - OldMT

Posted: May 19, 2013

One company lists compensation as: "$1.06 per dictated minute & up depending on acute experience and operative report experience.." I've always been paid per line and am not familiar at all with this form of compensation.. Does anyone have any experience with this, and does it sounds okay? It's an IC position. Thanks.

Also never paid by dictated minute, but... sm - Wandering

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If the "average" formula of 1 minute of dictation equals 3 minutes of typing, think of how long that 3 minutes runs you in lines, pages, whatever, and then realize you're only getting paid for 1 minute of audio, not your typing efforts... And what if that minute of dictation is of horrible quality and you end up playing it over and over and spend way too many minutes in listening to that horrible file? You still only get paid for that 1 minute and you've wasted many minutes that could have been spent on another file ... Also, if they allow docs to use normals and they say "Use my TRAM flap normal and make it all the left side," wham! pages and pages of lines down the tube because there was only that 1 minute of directions dictated. If you've already got it in your shortcuts or macros or whatever, then it would be gravy, but if not .... hope someone else can chime in about this as I'm just estimating here, but it really does seem like it could be a royal way to get screwed and not be paid what you're worth! NM

That's over $60 for one - hour of

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recorded dictation. If it takes 3 hours to transcribe that one hour, that's over $20 an hour. Not too shabby.

I think this is correct - just saying

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If it takes you an average of 3 minutes to transcribe at 1.06 per audio minute you make $21.2 per hour.

an average of 4 minutes = $15.9 per hour

5 minutes= 12.72.

6 minutes to type one minute of audio $10.60 per hour.

It comes down to averages - likely some reports will fly some won't. You must factor in breaks, or interruptions as well. A competent, focused MT should average over $15.00 hour based on my calculations.

Compensation - OldMT

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Thanks, all, for the helpful feedback - really appreciate it.

Well, I guess I'll have to inquire if there are a lot of ESL dictators with the account.. Also hope there aren't too many dictators that talk a mile a minute. :(

Many years ago, I was paid $1.52 a minute - of dictation. It was a SM

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medium sized county hospital and I was familiar with the dictators. It worked out very well back then, especially with those dictators who paused a lot. :)

Compensation - OldMT

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Those were the good old days, eh? Love these slow talkers. :)

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